Clara Claiborne Park biography

Clara Claiborne Park

Clara Claiborne Park Biography

Clara Claiborne Park is the author of several books, including The Siege:
A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child, and was a prominent
speaker about autism. She won the 1999 American Society of Magazine Editors
Award for Feature Writing for her American Scholar article "Exiting
Nirvana." She died in July of 2010 at the age of 86.

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